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Workshop 3D: Girl Justice: Powerful Practices for Supporting Girlvolution
This free workshop is sponsored by the Seattle/King County Gang Prevention & Outreach Work Group.
Description:
This training provides a fresh model for understanding and incorporating girl specific approaches into youth development work. Exploring core concepts, working with girls who experience a high need for social, emotional and basic needs support, envisioning new methods of outreach and advocacy, and using girl-led health and safety group curriculum are components of this interactive training.
Participants will: (1) Understand core concepts of what girl specific approaches are and how to incorporate them; (2) Take-away tools including skills inventory, health and safety curriculum and outreach mapping; (3) Strengthen their current girl engagement abilities through role plays, discussion and group activities; and (4) Evaluate and strengthen how their own relationships with each other lead to stronger outcomes with girls.
This workshop will end with closing remarks from Ms. Minty L. Jeffrey.
About the Instructor(s):
Ms. Ann Muno, MSW, co-founded Powerful Voices in 1995 and currently works as the Senior Program Analyst & Advocate at Powerful Voices. There she leads evaluation, research, advocacy, policy, and training efforts in the area of gender specific services. Ms. Muno's love of the field and passion for making girls' programming more widely available are guiding forces in her work. Ms. Muno is a graduate of the MSW Program at the University of Washington and is the proud mother of four daughters and a son.
Ms. Devon de Leña graduated from Fairhaven College at Western Washington University in 2006 with B.A. in Cross-Cultural Women's Empowerment. In 2007 Ms. de Leña traveled to Kenya to work with adolescent girls on healthy lifestyle choices and HIV/AIDS and has since founded a youth empowerment project called Youth Outreach Mentors. After serving a year at Powerful Voices as the STAGES Justserve Americorps member, she was hired on as the Outreach Coordinator and is cultivating volunteer opportunities so that Powerful Voices can expand to serve more girls in various locations.
Ms. Rita Alcantara was born and raised in south Seattle by two strong Filipino parents. For a short time, she moved to California for more sun and education where she earned a B.A. in Studio Art and Art History from Santa Clara University. After graduation, Rita promptly returned to Seattle, its comforting rain, and the supportive community her family built here. After a few years working as a photographer, she felt compelled to give back to the community that raised her and so began her journey in the world of non-profit youth development. Rita has taught for ArtsCorps and the Nature Consortium and served as Program Director at Youth in Focus prior to becoming the Program Director at Powerful Voices. Rita is happy to work alongside colleagues of such passion and skill at an organization where she can live out the values her immigrant parents instilled in her, not the least of which include compassion, justice, and being a strong woman. Rita loves staying active with sports and the performing arts, being in nature, being brown and being a girl.
Ms. Minty L. Jeffrey started her career in higher education as the Assistant to the Director of Minority Student Affairs at Seattle University. There, she served as an advisor and mentor to several of the ethnic student clubs. She left Seattle University to accept a position as Public Relations Coordinator for The Seattle Times where she sat on the newspaper's Diversity Council. A published poet and playwright, Ms. Jeffrey, who is an enrolled member of the Santee Indian Nation of South Carolina, mixed with Muskogee-Creek/Choctaw/Anglo-American and African-American, gained recognition as a motivational keynote speaker and private consultant specializing in multi-ethnic Indigenous heritage, transracial adoption, urban native awareness, Greek Lettered Organizational affairs, multiracialism, multiculturalism and cultural nuance. In the summer of 2007, Ms. Jeffrey was appointed to the position of Third Chief for the Santee Indian Nation of South Carolina and is serving her tribal government in that capacity. Her guest lecturing, trainings and workshops have brought her to major universities and colleges across the country, several community colleges, high schools and elementary schools, governmental and state agencies and departments, community and non-profit organizations, corporations, museums and local theaters. Ms. Jeffrey serves on the University of Washington's Native American Advisory Board. Ms. Jeffrey is also an advisory board member of Hip Hop Loves Foundation. She is a standing member of the CASE District VIII Committee for Opportunity and Equity and is also a member of AIWSL (American Indian Women's Service League) in Seattle, WA. Ms. Jeffrey is a proud member of Gamma Alpha Omega Sorority, Inc., a multicultural Latina-founded service-based sorority. Professionally, Ms. Jeffrey is the former Director of Community Relations for ColorsNW, Inc. In addition, she is an original co-founder and co-owner of ColorsNW Inc. in Seattle, WA. ColorsNW Inc. strives to serve the communities of color in the Pacific Northwest through multi-inclusion via multiple vehicles.
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Location2100 Building - Room A
2100 24th Avenue S
Seattle, WA 98144
United States
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| Kid Friendly: No |
| Dog Friendly: No |
| Non-Smoking: No |
| Wheelchair Accessible: No |
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